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How to write your PhD thesis: The secrets of academic writing

So if you are looking for that one big research idea, or that one methodology, you’re doing it wrong because you can’t predict how things will work out. Try something small, treat it as an experiment, and build from there.

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2 thoughts on “Everything is an experiment”

Great advice James. I learned to be a better historian by having to adapt to unexpected research results. As they say on the golf course, the best players are not defined by the ability to hit a perfect shot every time, but by the ability to recover from a bad shot when it happens.